"How do you get satellites into orbit?" "We basically just throw them really hard."

The issue is the projectiles are limited in payload as the payload has to be designed to withstand the launch system, rather than it's primary mission upon delivery.

how in the world do they possibly get the timing down too that precision too launch out perfectly through that machine. This is truly incredible.....

In the videos you can see some of them go through at an angle which would slow them down incredibly. They had this issue months ago, if they fix it great, but the launches aren’t consistent. If they can get it working properly you could send satellites in pieces and connect them via a remote control or something

How it doesn't destroy itself upon release is quite impressive, that's a huge amount of unbalanced weight to be spinning.

At this point I am beginning to think that this is really a stealth pitch to the military instead of a space launch system. Change the launch arm to a wheel so you can launch multiple projectiles at once, spin it up to sub orbital speeds and you could deliver a dozen or more payloads weighting multiple tons each to any point on the planet. Even if you can only get the range up to a thousand miles or something along those lines it would still make for one hell of an artillery piece.

The passengers can't handle the g force😂

This is Great. I cannot fathom but admire the imaginations and greatness of human mind. Support this from Kenya.

There is so far zero evidence that this approach can scale to the speeds and masses needed to be useful. SpinLaunch doesn't talk or outright bullies anyone who tries to question the necessary engineering breakthroughs to make this work.

As large as that structure is, I find it hard to believe it contains 2.2 million tons of steel. That would be about 30% of the total annual UK steel output and be worth at least 4 billion dollars, without cost of construction.

The exit release off by microseconds, the projectile slams into the exit port walls and the whole thing blows up. Just a matter of time as to when that happens. In the meantime, no people can be launched with it, and the electronics of most devices get shattered without major reinforcement, adding to weight. Really, a rocket launch system. That means the base should be pivotable on a rotational axis to aim it.

Its a great idea but it would mainly have to be used for payloads that arent easily breakable unless they have a mechanism to protect the payload from the G-force being generated.

The size this thing would need to be to launch anything of use to space would be crazy

This sounds like something that works in theory, but is massively impractical in reality.

I am skeptical that this technology would work. To many issues I can see with this, for example the machine would need to be much larger and spin much faster to reach the needed escape velocity needed. The larger it gets would make it harder to reach the near vacuum the needed inside the chamber. As the machine spins faster how will they keep it stable and have it release at the right moment.

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Wouldn't this be more efficient if this is done closer to the equator so as to leverage the earth's spin?

ACME Centrifugal Space Cannon. Wyle E. Coyote. Super Genius.

Impressive to see how far they came. I saw this from the start.

So the fuel carried by the projectile is used exclusively to achieve escape velocity?

Wow! The projectile reaching maximum speed and then hitting the thickest part of Earth's atmosphere, I'd like to see that, from a distance.

This may be an improvment on my idea of using a giant rubber band to slingshot obects into space. One difference is that our plan involves launching the object parallel to the ground to the horizon instead of up because we would have to dig a hole deep enough to pull the rubber band back far enough. The next impediment is that there is not a long enough flat surface on which to mount the slingshot because the Earth is curved. We are still working on that.

Amazing. Happy that we have clever folks like this in the US

1963: "by 2020 we will have flying cars" 2023: "let's just yeet stuff out of a spinning cannon"

Begs the question......the projectile and payload must both withstand immense G-loading, so that would seriously limit the types of permissible payload and also require intense engineering of the projectile and any systems/components carried. Seems like a very limited scope launch system albeit much lower cost per mission. Most of the G-load concerns would go away if this was a linear launch system but would require an extremely long distance.....about 400 miles if acceleration is 5g to reach 5000 mph (guestimated velocity to reach low-earth orbit as per this video) which likely explains his circular launch concept.

Fascinating but I wonder if upscaling will be maxed out at some point. I love the concept, but question its actual payload abilities.

This is absolutely mindblowing! Always wondered why spinning launchers and long rail guns weren’t attempted to launch things into space. Amazing to see it being tried.

Hey i remember hearing about Carbon Fiber in the news at an industrial environment recently. It was on a submarine that went pop. Repeated High stresses caused micro fractures and lead to the vehicles collapse, killing multiple people. Pretty sure there is a loght of High stresses involved, how long until the arm breaks and throws the payload early destroying the entire launch system and payload.

Wow! For reference, the minimum escape velocity for Earth at ground level for ballistic objects like their launch vehicle is ~11.2km/sec or over *25,000mph* or Mach 33. Even the extremely fast "hypersonic" speed range starts _only_ at Mach 5. But will need a some more speed to account for atmospheric drag. The pressure and heat from atmospheric drag will be enormous. The launch vehicle exiting the barrel at such speed could cause a large shockwave perhaps. Really good concepts and challenges listed on Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Escape_velocity Hope they can do it but using someone else's money and not any tax payer money.

Tbh.. looks like the massive wood chipper that I used to work near at a paper mill as a summer student back in the late '70's. Not quite as big but a beast of a machine.

How truly wonderful to hear a modern engineer say "aeroplane" instead of the crude, inelegant, "airplane"!

The payload must be able to withstand huge side loading caused by the centripetal motion.

So what happens when all that weight is released and the wheel is unbalanced? Im sure theyve thought about it, but Ive seen large fans (think 5,000 Horse Power) rip themselves apart from small weight imbalances

will anything more advanced than a rock survive the g-forces?

Incredible work !

Looking at this system there many issues: 1. How out of balance with the system be at full size when you release the mass? The higher the rotational velocity the greater the force applied. This is a V^2 relationship, where when you double the velocity the force increases by 4. When the mass is released, the force for the counterbalance will be in the opposite direction will be the same and unless there is somewhere to either drop the mass or stop the rotation rapidly, the system will fly apart. 2. At 5,000 files per hour debris from the breakable seal holding the vacuum with be very damaging to the projectile launched. At 5,000mph that is the equivalent to 7,333 feet per second. Anything capable of holding 14psi of pressure out in an opening that large is going to cause a lot of damage. Having the projectile breaking through it may look cool, but it is a disaster for the object traveling at that speed. 3. When the projectile encounters the atmosphere at 5,000mph both the shock and ram pressure heating will be tremendous. The only materials to be able to survive that are either ceramic, and or Carbon/Carbon structures. The carbon structures do not do well with impacts, and the ceramic's are very heavy. This is nothing more than snake oil being sold to low resolution thinking individuals. Just these three issues alone make this implausible, and there are many more. Any time someone tells me that this is ecologically sound, alarm bell go foo saying "Scam Alert".

The shaft of the orbital accelerator could suffer certain degree of damage due to the unbalanced loading on the object holding arm. Depending on the weight of load (rocket), it may need to replace the bearing frequently. Electromagnetic railguns should be able to launch much heavier aircraft/rocket.

curious, and i apologize if i missed the answer… you state that the arm is turned by an “electric motor”… what are the specs of the motor ?!! 🤓

Point that at a house and it's a weapon 😂

Love the design ! Reminds me a little of the movie "Contact" with Jodie Foster :)

It's incredible! I hope everything will going right!

This is a very interesting innovation. I hope it really takes off.

would this actually work? wouldnt the air cause enough resistance to slow it down before it reaches that far up?

its been cool to follow the development of this. its a crazy concept. when i listen to the designers, i really believe in what they are saying, all the same i still have this feeling of skepticism

10.000g. Hahahahaha! Satellites will be chunky salsa.

Made me think of Heinlein's mass driver catapults from his book, _The Moon is a Harsh Misstress_

Loving these young brilliant minds who think outside the linear possibilities... Fabulous!!!! 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

So is this how they are releasing alien tech without getting in trouble. Under a rouse!?

Been following them and wish them nothing but the best … it’s cool to see new ways of getting things to space …

The g forces would reduce anyone to a pile of pulp, but even unmanned vehicles, wouldn't those g forces damage and destroy very sensitive electronics?

They can save even more fuel as they can tune the engine bell of the rocket motor for the altitude it ignites/ orbit, as opposed to having a design that has to be a good fit from sea level to orbit. Could also be a good weapons system/ launcher. Another thought would be to add a kinetic energy recovery system (KERS) via a flywheel and generator to recover some of the energy as electricity.

How about building a SpinLaunch system at very high-elevation places (Hill Stations like the Himalayas) where the atmosphere is very thin?

Reminds me of the machine they built in the movie CONTACT.

So how hight they can throw ?

If I was the owner of spin launch I would be bragging on how high I launched my projectiles to date !

Man.....if Apple decided to make a big giant iPhone then it would fit right in there! 😂1:26

You need to develop anti gravity to avoid the G force effects. I think this was already demonstrated in Australia sometimes ago using a pair of gyroscope.

The Gs from the centripetal force must be immense. No way will it work with manned spacecraft or even projectiles with sensitive materials.

So exciting, I wish them well‼️

Didn't Thunderf00t already debunk this as a fraud?

What happens if you lose the vacuum seal during the hyper rotation?

the centrifuge force is enormous so the projectile and what it contains is submitted to tremendous constraint

I have been a Spinlaunch fan for years, not just because Yeeting satellites amuses me. I'm glad to see the press picking up on some of the other young aerospace companies with less self-promoting but equally intelligent CEOs as they work to bring the tried and true but outdated commercial aerospace industry my Dad worked for into the 21st century. (Too many people don't realize that commercial aerospace has been around as long as weather and telecommunications satellites and the US nuclear program - NASA just provided a more peaceful, civilian, and scientific purpose and R&D for ICBMs).

I'm surprised this money-pit project is getting a 2nd airing in 2023.

Reminds me of the same way I used to launch my spit balls back in 1985

I want to know how they plan to dump the payload's angular momentum after release.

It’ll be ready in about 5 years and they’ve been working on it since 2014 so it’s taking them 14 years total to get it working 😊

As a space fan, follow spaceX and the rest, I must say. You all rock for being different. Can't wait to see the full build and testing. I'll follow all the way when it's the full sized one being tested. Investors better invest!

Thunderfoot's video on this was great.

even if they could get it working, how many payload could survive 1000s of Gs? not many i suspect

This is literally how caveman thought of how to get to space 💀

A lot of cool scams going on in the space space

Whatever works! It’s the idea that matters, being positive and productive for humanity’s development 😊

This was discussed in 2013 glad to see it today

How large is the space craft that could be carried with this type of lunching machine.

"I was sitting in my mom's lap at 3 years old learning how to fly a plane" talk about winning the parents lottery, a platinum spoon. an out-liar

Wow! My fist thought, can it be used to send fuel to orbiting starships?

They got this built for 150 million. That's cheap. I think we all have the same question: How this thing spins this fast and how you get it to perfectly release at the right point. The payload has to handle the rotation and G's of the launch..

What is the speed needed anyways? For to orbit

Hate 2 see what happens when it miss the exit by millisecond 💥

Doesn't even matter if we use it once to send man into space, as long as it's able to send supplies, satellites, and other important cargo cheaply and more environmentally friendly as well as safer.. already the biggest win 🏆

Very cool. I can’t wait to see what these guys do next

Maybe this idea need to be worked out and will have a lot of testing but is realy great engineering idea. This would help a lot.

Dude better start showing some spectacular results and soon. It seems like everyday SpaceX has done something ingenious that's got the folks at NASA shaking their heads in amazement.

Hope Thunderfoot will make another video debunking this "genius" idea ^^ edit : 5:50 Yeah, let's compare with the Wright brothers. That doesn't sound delusional for a bit. Love the little smile on the reporter's face when he's saying this seriously haha

I wonder how would they make it enough heat resistant to withstand the air friction

Ok, so a quick google shows that there is electronics that can withstand up to 30,000 G (it is used in artillery applications). That being said, it is probably very small, special purpose stuff - not useful satellites. Maybe it would be useful for launching 'raw materials' to space. For example fuel, water, oxygen or building blocks for space stations.

I'm an investor in this company, they're doing great things 💪💪

if people could survive such a launch I think this technology would have been developed sooner

They should play Looney Tunes music during launch

I'm wondering how much effort would have to be put in on the rocket makers part to withstand those g forces.

I hate seeing Spinlaunch associated with such things. Yes, centrifugal slings are potentially useful on the moon, asteroids, or in free space. But Spinlaunch isn't working on such applications, and most of what they are working on won't be applicable. You don't need the vacuum chamber, you aren't limited to such a short radius of rotation and high acceleration forces, you don't need a near-orbital rocket stage with a discardable aeroshell that can survive sea level hypersonic flight... Spinlaunch isn't about efficient lunar payload launches, they're about getting investor funding by pushing a fallacy that orbital launch here on Earth is expensive due to propellant costs. By the time we're building lunar slings, they won't be around any more.

Another Elizabeth Holmes in the making or Nikola.

The projectile can still use fuel to boost the flight even further. To gain momentum.

This is a 1/5 scale what they want for commercial operation, but nobody quotes the cost per launch

Yeah....hard, hard pass on investing in this one. They might be able to design an elaborate skeet launcher, but that's about it. No satellite with modern tech would be functional after that level of G-force. Also, if we weren't able to put satellites into orbit with a giant cannon, then there ain't a chance in hell we are doing it with a sling. I'm sure this guy skipped a few physics lessons in his day. Thank God that he isn't building submarines...

The launch vehicle will tumble. Plus if an equal weight is not released from the other side into the ground at the exact same moment, that whole spinning assembly will destroy itself from imbalance.

Wow, it will be interesting to see where this tech is in 50 years! 😳😳😳😳😳

ok but you can only transpo stuff that isn't g-force sensitive. at 5000mph only solids and heavy liquids and some hard building materials can be sent. i don't think the delicate circuitry in a small satellite would hold up to 1000g+ but what do i know. also skeptical they can build one 3x larger. id think its like a wooden ship...you can only build one so large, no matter how clever you are with bracing, futtocks, hanging knees etc before it flexes and has foundered and sank right to bottom, just like this project. also, how much energy does it take to put that giant chamber under partial vacuum (note they said vacuum, but that just seems impossible with that thin film holding the outside air back)? im willing to be it takes precisely a metric crapload, negating the entire thing right off the bat.

Yes. 360 in performance